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When we start a new year, we want to get right to the action. Well, let me ask you: How is that working for you? My guess is, not well, or at least, not consistently well.  To create something new with your belief plan and your habit goal (from episodes 92 and 93), you need a results plan for what you’re going to create! You can believe with all your heart to see new results, but when there are no actions linked to that belief,  you aren’t truly believing it. Results are created by actions that come from our beliefs. The beliefs by themselves just don’t do it.  Believe something new, then link it to actions in your weekly results plan. How do we do it? In this episode, I’ll teach you how to: identify your desired result goal, divide it out by quarters, months, and weeks, and use a practical method called “hour one, hour done” to plan out specific weekly goals. You can operate your God-given authority and become a pilot on the flight plan toward your goals with purposeful intention. Having a w

How do you think you will feel when you finish your book? Joyful? Excited? Accomplished? Satisfied?  Here’s the truth: those feelings will not be automatic. You must create that emotion from a thought. And if you can do it when the book is finished, you can do it now! In this episode, I’m going to teach you how you can use the emotion you plan to feel later as your motivational drive to get to the result of finishing your book. By using a belief plan in 30-day increments to cultivate those emotions in you, you will become the person who can carry out the actions needed to write that book. If you make plans to believe the things you need to believe now, it will lead you to profit later.  The post 93: Create a Monthly Belief Plan appeared first on Nika Maples.

Let’s write a lot of books in 2022, what do you say? I believe we can do it. And why wouldn’t we? It has never been easier to get a book into readers’ hands. In fact, if you choose self-publishing, your book could be available by the end of the year. Your book is possible!  In this episode, I will teach you how to make a goal and map it out in five steps: Seek God Set an Outcome Goal Set a Habit Goal Break It into Smaller Containers Track the Relationship Between Habits and Outcomes Plan for a productive writing year because the God who loves you stands ready to help you multiply your efforts. We serve a God of beauty and abundance. He is not stingy and He does not withhold for no reason. That’s who He is, and it’s what He does. You can do this! The post 92: Plan for a Productive Writing Year appeared first on Nika Maples.

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Did you know your words are seeds that will create results in your life? Listen to find out the ways you may be sabotaging yourself. To watch the video version of this episode on my YouTube channel, click here. The post 81: Words Create the Path We Take appeared first on Nika Maples.

You have more control over your thoughts than you realize. The post 80: The Captain and the Kid appeared first on Nika Maples.

In this episode, I read an excerpt from Hunting Hope: “The speed of my answer surprised me when someone recently asked, “What’s next for you?” “Obedience,” I answered. “That’s always what’s next for me.” Maybe I have finally learned that any other plan won’t work. Obedience is my plan. Obedience was the plan for most of the tide-changers in the Bible. This year I made a little project of marking certain themes in the Bible with certain colors. I am a sucker for school supplies, especially supplies in coordinatedcolors. It has crossed my mind that one reason I became apublic school English teacher was to have a valid excuse to buy new school supplies every fall. Newly armed with a set of highlighters in eight colors and a set of matching page tabs, I set out to annotate what I read in the Bible each morning. I marked passages that related to teaching. I marked passages that related to speaking and writing. I marked passages that related to handling adversity. And I marked

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Is the pursuit of perfection holding you back? I’ve found that many people hesitate to do anything if they aren’t sure that it is going to turn out perfectly. Maybe one solution for perfection paralysis is simply making an attempt. I’ll explain what I mean through an excerpt from my book, Everyday Genesis: “When I taught English in public schools, sometimes students would complain if they didn’t feel they could successfully accomplish the skill I had asked them to practice.  “I can’t!” they’d cry.  “Make an attempt,” I’d answer with a smile.  “But I don’t know what I’m doing!”  “Make an attempt.”  “But I can’t think of anything to write about!”  “Make an attempt.”  I would say this over and over, always cheerfully. I used it as another one of those push-button phrases that help me communicate what is most important to me. Teachers know that most of the time these complaints from students are just excuses. Listen to the full episode to lea

I bet it feels safe to say, “I don’t know.” We say it ALL DAY LONG. But James 1:5-7 tells us that wisdom is available. God give it generously, whenever we ask in faith. So is it ever reasonable to say I don’t know? Here are some things that you can say instead. Listen to the full episode to learn more … The post 75: The Toxic Phrase You Keep Saying appeared first on Nika Maples.